rewrite the following sentences using the passive voice of the verb. The man caught the thief.
Answers
The thief was caught by the man.
Explanation:
The sentence in active voice can be turned to passive voice are as under:
a) The subject will become the object.
b) The object will become the subject.
c) In passive voice, ‘past participle’ is used. Now the verb ‘caught’ is in past tense while past participle of ‘caught’ is same i.e. ‘caught’.
Hence, the thief was caught by the man is the correct answer. The object and subject interchanged by using past participle.
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Passive voice
The thief was caught by the man.
Explanation:
- The sentence given in the question has the subject as 'man'.
- The verb is in the simple past tense -'caught'.
- The object is 'thief '.
- In the passive voice the subject is written towards the end while the object is written in the beginning.
- The active verb 'caught' will now become passive. An auxiliary verb will help it and will also predict its tense. The word 'was' is the auxiliary here in the past tense.
- Then main verb will be written in its past participle form which is 'caught ' here.
- Thus the sentence becomes : The thief was caught by the man.
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